Jeremiah 5:1
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Jerusalem Refused to Repent
5 (A)Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem,
look and take note!
Search her squares to see
(B)if you can find a man,
one who does justice
and seeks truth,
(C)that I may pardon her.
Ezekiel 22:30
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30 (A)And I sought for a man among them (B)who should build up the wall (C)and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
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2 Chronicles 16:9
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9 (A)For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those (B)whose heart is blameless[a] toward him. (C)You have done foolishly in this, for from now on (D)you will have wars.”
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- 2 Chronicles 16:9 Or whole
Genesis 18:23-32
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23 Then Abraham drew near and said, (A)“Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24 Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? 25 Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, (B)so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! (C)Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” 26 And the Lord said, (D)“If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.”
27 Abraham answered and said, (E)“Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. 28 Suppose five of the fifty righteous are lacking. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And he said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.” 29 Again he spoke to him and said, “Suppose forty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of forty I will not do it.” 30 Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.” 31 He said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.” 32 Then he said, (F)“Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.”
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Micah 7:1-2
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Wait for the God of Salvation
7 Woe is me! For I have become
(A)as when the summer fruit has been gathered,
as when the grapes have been gleaned:
there is no cluster to eat,
no (B)first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
2 (C)The godly has perished from the earth,
and (D)there is no one upright among mankind;
(E)they all lie in wait for blood,
and (F)each hunts the other with a net.
Daniel 12:4
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4 But you, Daniel, (A)shut up the words and (B)seal the book, until (C)the time of the end. (D)Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
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Isaiah 59:14-15
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Judgment and Redemption
14 (A)Justice is turned back,
and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has stumbled in the public squares,
and uprightness cannot enter.
15 Truth is lacking,
and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
The Lord saw it, and it displeased him[a]
that there was no justice.
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- Isaiah 59:15 Hebrew and it was evil in his eyes
Isaiah 59:4
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4 (A)No one enters suit justly;
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
(B)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
Proverbs 23:23
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23 (A)Buy truth, and do not sell it;
buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Psalm 53:2-4
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2 God looks down from heaven
on the children of man
to see if there are any who understand,[a]
who seek after God.
3 They have all fallen away;
together they have become corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.
4 Have those who work evil no knowledge,
who eat up my people as they eat bread,
and do not call upon God?
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- Psalm 53:2 Or who act wisely
Psalm 14:3
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3 They have all turned aside; together they have become (A)corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.
Psalm 12:1
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The Faithful Have Vanished
To the choirmaster: according to The Sheminith.[a] A Psalm of David.
12 Save, O Lord, for (A)the godly one is gone;
for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.
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- Psalm 12:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
2 Thessalonians 2:10
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10 and with all wicked deception for (A)those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
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Luke 14:21
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21 So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in (A)the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’
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Zechariah 2:4
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4 and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, (A)‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited (B)as villages without walls, because of (C)the multitude of people and livestock in it.
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Amos 8:12
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12 (A)They shall wander from sea to sea,
and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
(B)but they shall not find it.
Joel 2:9
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9 (A)They leap upon the city,
they run upon the walls,
(B)they climb up into the houses,
(C)they enter through the windows (D)like a thief.
Proverbs 20:6
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Proverbs 8:3
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Proverbs 2:4-6
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4 if you seek it like (A)silver
and search for it as for (B)hidden treasures,
5 then (C)you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
6 For (D)the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
1 Kings 19:10
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10 He said, “I have been very (A)jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, (B)thrown down your altars, and (C)killed your prophets with the sword, (D)and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”
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